PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Historical Artifacts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago'Apache' revolver used by French gangsters, pre-WW1lemmy.worldimagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down11cross-posted to: forgottenweapons@lemmy.world
arrow-up126arrow-down1image'Apache' revolver used by French gangsters, pre-WW1lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Historical Artifacts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square8fedilinkcross-posted to: forgottenweapons@lemmy.world
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoI’m thinking it’s mostly a weapon of intimidation, personally, but what I don’t know about pre-WW1 French gangsters fills libraries, lmao
minus-squarej4k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoSeems like the kind of thing that might be created to circumvent a poorly written law. Like the Gandalf AK meme; ‘ANY knife under 6in is legal’ kind of nonsense. Amended: ‘ANY knife under 6in without a gun barrel is legal’ Response: (image)
I’m thinking it’s mostly a weapon of intimidation, personally, but what I don’t know about pre-WW1 French gangsters fills libraries, lmao
Seems like the kind of thing that might be created to circumvent a poorly written law. Like the Gandalf AK meme; ‘ANY knife under 6in is legal’ kind of nonsense.
Amended: ‘ANY knife under 6in without a gun barrel is legal’
Response: (image)